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1. Inside Job (2010)
directed by Charles Ferguson
featuring Matt Damon, William Ackman, Daniel Alpert, Jonathan Alpert, Sigridur Benediktsdottir, Willem Buiter, John Campbell, Patrick Daniel, Satyajit Das, Kristin Davis, Martin Feldstein, Jerome Fons, Barney Frank, Robert Gnaizda, Michael Greenberger, Eric Halperin, Samuel Hayes, Glenn Hubbard, Simon Johnson, Christine Lagarde, Jeffrey Lane, Andrew Lo, Lee Hsien Loong, Andri Magnason, David McCormick, Lawrence McDonald, Harvey Miller, Frederic Mishkin, Charles Morris, Frank Partnoy, Raghuram Rajan, Kenneth Rogoff, Nouriel Roubini, Andrew Sheng, Allan Sloan, George Soros, Eliot Spitzer, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Scott Talbott, Gillian Tett, Paul Volcker, Martin Wolf, Gylfi Zoega
Producer/director Charles Ferguson (No End in Sight) speaks at length with journalists, politicians, and financial insiders in order to offer a ... More
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2. Slavery By Another Name (2011)
directed by Sam Pollard
featuring Laurence Fishburne
According to the broadest outlines of history, the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution formally abolished slavery in 1865, but the truth is ... More
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3. Do You Believe in Miracles? The Story of the 1980 U.S. Hockey Team (2001)
In what some sportscasters call the number one sports moment of the century, the U.S. Hockey Team amazingly beat the Soviets by a 4-3 score in the ... More
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4. Ganges (2007)
Running in excess of three hours, the epic documentary Ganges explores the history, geography and social impact of the titular body of water, one ... More
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5. Behind the Burly Q (2010)
directed by Leslie Zemeckis
featuring Alan Alda, Renny von Muchow, Dorothy von Muchow, John Perilli
In the days before hardcore pornography attained mainstream accessibility in America, a more docile and suggestive form of adult entertainment ... More
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6. National Geographic: Arlington - Field of Honor (2005)
Established in 1864, Arlington National Cemetery has been America's solemn and distinguished resting place for military veterans and soldiers who ... More
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7. Kon-Tiki (1951)
directed by Thor Heyerdahl
featuring Thor Heyerdahl
Kon-Tiki was the name of a tiny balsa-wood raft, constructed by Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl. It was Heyerdahl's contention that pre-Columbian ... More
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9. The Man Nobody Knew (2011)
directed by Carl Colby
featuring Carl Colby, Barbara Colby, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Gen. Brent Scowcroft, Donald Rumsfeld, Bob Woodward, Bob Kerrey, James Schlesinger, Dale Andrade, Tim Weiner, Seymour Hersh, Corrado Cantatore, Jonathan Clarke, Daren Flitcroft, Donald Gregg, Fisher Howe, Thomas Hughes, Oleg Kalugin, John Langan, James Lilley, Edward N. Luttwak, Thomas McCoy, Robert McFarlane, Elizabeth McIntosh, H.R. McMaster, Hugh Montgomery, John Nagl, Rufus Phillips, Walter Pincus, Daniel Schorr, Laurence Silberman, John Singlaub, Joseph W. Smith, Evan Thomas, Hugh Tovar, William Webster, Steve Young
This probing documentary from Carl Coby investigates a figure at once cloaked in mystery and close to his heart: his father, CIA operative William ... More
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10. The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (2011)
directed by Göran Olsson
featuring Stokely Carmichael, Eldridge Cleaver, Kathleen Cleaver, Bobby Seale, Huey P. Newton, Emile de Antonio, William Kunstler, Angela Davis, John Forté, Robin Kelley, Talib Kweli, Abiodun Oyewole, Melvin Van Peebles, Sonia Sanchez, Ahmir Thompson
In the late '60s, after the assassination of both Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, the civil rights movement in America gave way to a more militant ... More
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11. Olympia (1938)
directed by Leni Riefenstahl
Having proven her mettle with her still-astonishing propaganda epic Triumph of the Will, German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl furthered her reputation ... More
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12. The Rape of Europa (2007)
directed by Bonni Cohen, Nicole Newnham, Richard Berge
featuring Joan Allen
Adolf Hitler spent years struggling to establish himself as an artist before his political ambitions rose to the surface and he brought the Nazi ... More
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13. Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam (1987)
directed by Bill Couturie
featuring Tom Berenger, Ellen Burstyn, J. Kenneth Campbell, Richard Chaves, Josh Cruze
Dear America: Letters Home From Vietnam was first telecast April 3, 1988, over the HBO cable service. Based on the book of the same name, the program ... More
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14. Bonhoeffer (2003)
directed by Martin Doblmeier
featuring Martin Doblmeier, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Adele Schmidt, Richard Mancini, John de Gruchy
Culled from an array of archival footage, on-location shooting, dramatic narration, and interviews with family, friends, and historians, the ... More
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15. Trail of Tears: Cherokee Legacy (2006)
directed by Chip Richie
Voted the Best Documentary of 2006 by the American Indian Film Institute, Chip Richie's detailed account of the events that unfolded following the ... More
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16. National Geographic: Lewis & Clark - Great Journey West (2002)
directed by Bruce Neibaur, Karen Goodman, Kirk Simon
featuring Jeff Bridges
In 1804, two American military officers, Merriweather Lewis and William Clark, were given an assignment by President Thomas Jefferson -- to explore ... More
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17. Richter: L'Insoumis (1998)
directed by Bruno Monsaingeon
featuring Svyatoslav Richter
Bruno Monsaingeon wrote and directed this 144-minute French documentary about Russian pianist Sviatoslav Richter, who died August 1, 1997. Black-and ... More
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18. Truth or Dare (1991)
directed by Alek Keshishian
featuring Madonna, Warren Beatty, Sandra Bernhard
Truth or Dare is an outrageous, insightful, carefully controlled and (to non-fans) overlong documentary of singer Madonna's 1990 Blonde Ambition tour ... More
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19. Dogtown and Z-Boys (2002)
directed by Stacy Peralta
featuring Henry Rollins, Stacy Peralta, Tony Hawk, Sean Penn
In the mid-'70s, skateboarding was widely seen as a fad of the 1960s that had all but died out, except for a handful of committed fans in California. ... More
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20. National Geographic: Secrets of the Titanic (1986)
directed by Nicolas Noxon
Before Leonardo DiCaprio was popular and the Titanic sunk all box-office records, this documentary was telling the truth to all National Geographic ... More
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21. Frank Lloyd Wright (1998)
directed by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick
featuring Philip Bosco, Julie Harris, Sab Shimono
Edward Herrmann narrates this portrait of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, as directed by renowned documentary filmmaker Ken Burns (Lewis & Clark.) The ... More
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22. Elvis: Rare Moments with the King (1990)
News footage of Elvis, including his news conferences, and his wedding. ~ Rovi
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23. Heir to an Execution (2003)
directed by Ivy Meeropol
Journalist Ivy Meeropol makes her directorial debut with Heir to an Execution, a personal documentary exploring the execution of her biological ... More
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24. American Experience: The Donner Party (1992)
directed by Ric Burns
In 1846, a group of over eighty Westward-bound pioneers were headed to the coast of California from Illinois, which had itself only recently been ... More
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25. Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony (1999)
directed by Ken Burns
featuring Sally Kellerman, Ronnie Gilbert, Julie Harris, Amy Madigan, Adam Arkin
Upon finding a written biography of pioneering women's rights activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, film producers Paul Barnes and Ken Burns (director of ... More
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